The google doodle for Dec. 2, 2013 celebrates the memory of opera singer Maria Callas, who would have turned 90 today.

The memory of soprano Maria Callas, known as La Divina for her bel canto technique, is being celebrated today in a Google doodle.

Callas, who died in 1977 at the age of 53, would have been 90 years old today.

Born Sophia Cecelia Kalos in New York City in 1923, the Greek-American soprano’s life was a troubled one, beginning with an overbearing mother who forced her to train rigorously, an ill-fated love affair with Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis and the deterioration of her singing voice, possibly related to rapid weight loss.